It’s a warm day in early June, and researcher Nicholas Dietschler is standing in front of an eastern hemlock sapling about a quarter of a mile up a steep ridge in New York’s Catskill Mountains. The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For centuries, the Abenaki people of the northeastern USA and Canada looked at maple sap as a gift from their creator, arriving ...

Christmas tree farmers across the Northeast are looking decidedly less merry as they struggle to keep their trees alive amid a weeks-long drought that has left vegetation brown, shriveled and crisp.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Many eastern and central parts of the United States have been dealing with persistent drought, with dry conditions dominating much ...